Woman cured of advanced breast cancer using own immune cells in ‘exciting’ global first
Woman left disease-free for two years after trial of pioneering new therapy that could be used to tackle treatment-resistant cancers
A woman has been completely cured of breast cancer after doctors tweaked her immune system, enabling it to destroy the tumours that had spread through her body.
The treatment, which succeeded after all other conventional treatments had failed, marks the first successful application of T-cell immunotherapy for late-stage breast cancer.
While the technique is still in its early days, scientists have welcomed its potential as a future treatment for cancers that have resisted all other forms of therapy.
The 49-year-old patient was treated by a team led by Dr Steven Rosenberg at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Maryland.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/breast-cancer-cure-tcell-immunotherapy-tumour-treatment-disease-world-first-a8382806.html